Abstract:
Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the great success stories of modern
cancer therapy, with risk-stratified treatment protocols achieving nearly 80% cure rates.
However, the risk stratification is an imprecise and labour intensive, requiring the combined
expertise of multiple specialists. In this talk, we discuss the development of a single-test
platform based on gene expression microarray and computational analysis to address this
problem.

This talk is based on joint work with Jinyan Li, Huiqing Liu, and Allen Yeoh.

Speaker:
Limsoon Wong is Deputy Executive Director (Research) of the Institute for Infocomm Research.
Before assuming his current position, he led one of Asia’s most productive and most advanced
bioinformatics research laboratory for nearly a decade. Besides bioinformatics, Limsoon is also
well known for his fundamental contributions to query language theory and finite model theory.
He has published close to 100 papers in these 3 fields, and several of his papers are among the
best cited in each of these three fields. He is a managing editor of "Journal of Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology" and is an advisory editor of "BIOSILICO".